Cladun X2 Reviews

i don't really have much to contribute that others haven't already said; but if you're waiting for this game to go on sale, don't bother. it's 20 bucks or bust with this one EDIT: I guess some people have commented that it's recently been on sale on a few other sites. Don't wait for it to go on sale on Steam, I really doubt that's happening. EDIT 6/27/17: Well, It's on sale. Go wild.

Though just a bit too pricey for its kind in my opinion, it's one of the nicest RPGs I've seen on Steam, with nice character customization, a variety of weapons, and a lot of nice menu options, such as making a sort of "aid" with your other characters to increase your stats and defense. The only con, is that after a while it feels repetitive, and as such, it's hard to really get through if you feel such. But another plus, is that it always draws me back, and I always love playing it again, even if it's just a silly experience. Naturally, the controls flow well, and make it enjoyable to do everything, and with every citizen on the island, you'll have some nice dialogue, sometimes awkward, other times weird, but always nice. And all the classes are nice too.

Despite mixed reviews, Cladun x2 is one of my favorite niche games from NISA. The base gameplay is a simple pixel action dungeon crawler. The real fun of the game is the level of customizability though. You slowly build up a team of heroes from various classes and you can design any character to wield any weapon. If you're willing to scrounge some old websites, there's a bevy of resources out there that will hand you easy sprite sheets you can use for some fun insert characters. The game also has Nippon Ichi's typical insane mechanical depth and crazy number inflation. If you like big numbers in action RPGs and don't mind some dated pixel graphics and getting your hands dirty with customization, you'll love this one.

Overall, a pretty decent action RPG with a lot of depth to the mechanics. The game strongly rewards players who find the best ways to exploit its "Magic Circle" system, which allows you to line a party of helpers up to invisibly buff the player character. Being able to edit characters and equipment at the pixel-art level in-game is a fairly unusual feature that is also kind of neat. On the minus side, the translation and porting of the game lack polish. For one example, the game allows equipment to have up to four random "titles", but the names of those titles often bear only a passing resemblance to their functions, and no attempt is made to string them together into a name that makes sense in English -- maybe the titled names make more sense in Japanese? The occasional onomatopoeia is badly done to a baffling degree: a dog bark is written "gow" on several occasions. Huh? For another, the game's controller support is spotty. My XBox One controller works, but only if it's on when the game is launched. My wired 360 controller doesn't work at all. In-game button prompts use button numbers 1-6 rather than A/B/X/Y/L/R. It's perfectly playable with a controller if you have a compatible one and translating the prompts doesn't bother you, though, and I recommend this if it works. If you can overlook the issues above, and give the game half an hour to start to open up all the mechanics, you will find a lot of RPG-mechanical depth there under the pixel-art graphics and wafer-thin plot. Unfortunately, stability issues I've run into lately on Windows 10 make it necessary to give the game a thumbs-down overall. This game is a sadly missed opportunity for the publisher IMHO.

NISA never fails to disappoint with a bad port of a great game, despite it being bad port the game itself is 'playable' with a few tweaks in the options menu. So the only reason i'll only be playing it again is for nostalgia's sake. I definitely recommend checking the other reviews on how to play this game with a PS or Xbox controller as the controls on the keyboard is pretty crappy imo.

Broken to the point its nearly unplayable for me at times. The music cuts out randomly and just stops for the entire duration of time I have the game open. After I set the controls and settings how I want they just go back to default sometimes when I reopen the game. My save data reset but that could have been mistake on my part... or that could have been one of the many glitches this game suffers from. When the game isn't resetting data and permanently turning off the beautiful music (Extremely rarely) its a lot of fun. The jokes don't land and the dungeons are a one and done experience but its still fun anyways. The character and item creator are the main gimmick to the game and it takes far too long to make something you can be proud of. Only the extremely patient will actually sit down and make something and even then they won't want to do it all over again if their data gets reset. The creation of characters and items can be great payoff and you can even import stuff from only. The stuff you can get from online is pretty cool at times too. The dungeon use good mechanics and there are some fun puzzles but the nature of the main dungeons makes it so once you play once or twice you've got the experience and you won't have as much fun again. The level system and power creep is pretty fun to be honest. The drawback to all of this though is that it all takes a lot of time in and promises little back. Character creation takes forever, getting a perfect score in a level can take forever, getting perfect stats is unnecessary, the jokes are pretty lame and I hear the endgame sputters out. You'll only get as much fun as you put in. And I put all of my fun into tri-gens after imputing a bunch of cheat codes. I skipped to the best part of the game when I played on psp and had a great time. The tri-gens are one of two types of procedural dungeon generation systems in the game and at the time they really made the game stand out but they weren't the selling point like they maybe should have been. The stat tree's and character customization are fun but they don't compensate for the game part of the game. You have to unlock tri-gens and the other one. I don't know how long it takes but that fact alone makes me not want to recommend the game to newcomers. Its not that the base game is so bad its just slow and repetitive. The whole game is slow and repetitive. The only distraction in the beginning is the characters and they are terribly derivative. I thought the first game had much more basic character customization but better characters (even though there were only two) and I miss the humor with them. This is sengoku came out and I still haven't played it. I just want the feeling of playing x2 for the first time again. This is sengoku has an even worse intro into the game somehow. This series... The first two games in this series are close to my heart and I think they could use a makeover. I think theres still so much that could be done with these games. This series could do SO WELL under the right team. Theres so very much potential and it makes me want to cry there will never be another sequel and it never reached its max potential. I think x2 is as close to perfection as it came.

Such a cool concept. Customize the visual style of every character and weapon in a pixel paintshop and explore randomly generated dungeons, constantly upgrading your skills by expanding little game boards (ala the zodiac in FFXII) that can be switched on the fly for different challenges, and where other characters you've created can be slotted in to support the one character you control at any given time. Combat is a little tight, with awkward hit boxes that don't really emulate Link to the Past or Seiken Denetsu type combat, and takes getting used to, but there's enough things that are unique that I recommend it as a action JRPG. Just probably not on PC. If you have the ability to play it on PS Vita, choose that. On PC, try the demo first and try it a few times, because this is the worst port of any game I've ever played and that includes wonky ROM translations. First, though it's a pixel art game, it gets less than 5 FPS on laptops with integrated graphics, the same laptops that can play Risk of Rain, Nuclear Throne, Hyperlight Drifter and so on without issue. Second, even on good hardware the game will suddenly seem to go off its timing so that there's a lag between your input and what's happening on screen. Sometimes it will just fail to load images and all you'll hear is music. Finally, and probably the worst of all, the game will randomly forget your controller mapping, and outright fail to recognize proper xinput from XBox controllers until you delete the settings and rebuild them, at which point it will recognize your controller again. It's unlikely the game will ever get any updates for PC, though sales are happening more frequently this last couple years and there really aren't that many games like this.

If you are on Windows 10/Radeon avoid it, it will not load properly. It does however load on the steam deck but it is glitchy AF. I did manage to run this on a similar system, albeit with an NVIDIA card. So if you are running NVIDIA it will run ok. Some Radeon variants will not run this game.

A "do not recommend"? Why? Because this game crashed while it was saving with extremely predictable results, throwing away dozens of hours of grinding. Not the first time it's crashed either, it's prone to crashing during the extremely long marathon dungeons: the rangeons. Goodbye nearly finished save, I hardly knew ye. I wanted to finish X2 before I went to the sequel in Sengoku, but it's as good a time as any to move on. Funny how this happens the moment I finish the arduous task of leveling 9 different characters to 99 in every single job. I'll likely come back to this eventually, but until this error is fixed (not likely seeing the complaints on both Cladun discussion boards), I can't recommend this game. Save files being corrupted by game crashes is not acceptable. Buyer beware if you're not a fan of losing your time and effort due to unfixed crashes. Aside from the crashes which just kills it for me and the other minor bugs, was a generally enjoyable experience.

I own this for the PSP Vita and PC, i have well over 1k+ hours dumped into the game over the years, It's an extremely replayable top-down rpg with the combat system being very akin to the 2d Zelda games, You compose your party from characters you create in the tavern, you can make them look however you want with the in game editor that is easy to use but very detailed, this editor is also available to make your own gear skins to apply to items gathered while slaying monsters or looting chest. There are Many jobs to choose from, base jobs as well as a few unlockable ones. You're allowed to Reclass after you reach a certain point in the game, when you choose another job you retain all abilities/magic, ''Magic circles'' and a fraction of your stats, There are 3 dungeon modes. Story mode, Ran-Geon ''Random dungeon'' and Tri-Geon ''Triple Dungeons'' (Ran/Tri are both randomised Multi Floored dungeons) Really basic summation of the game, It's worth its ''Steep'' price in my opinion IF you have the option to get it on the PSP/VITA over PC do so, But if PC is your only platform then it's no big deal, it's just as responsive as the handhelds and emulated great as well. Thank you for taking your time to read the review, and good luck!